Ready for this

Don't this look wonderful?  I am so ready for fall...but then I am always ready for it.  It is my favorite season.
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We were on the go all day yesterday...had appointments in Terre Haute early yesterday morn, stopped by Menards afterwards.  We came home and in just a little while, discovered we had picked up the wrong lightbulbs by mistake, but also decided I needed a new fluourescent light fixture.  So back to Menards we went.

During all of this running I did hang out a load of clothes...it was so hot it dried in no time.  Hopefully, I won't need to do any more for a while.

Then at the end of the day, we got to meet one of Sarah's friends in Terre Haute.  They had been over to Sarah's and Lorelei rode here back with them and we met them and picked her up.  She says right now that she is staying 5 days, but that may change.

Anyway, with her here, I won't be blogging much.

My addiction...

There is no doubt about it...fabric is my addiction...a week or two ago, we stopped by Lori's Pins & Needles...we were over to Paris for something else.  But since we were in the neighborhood, I took my Crumbs in the Corner quilt to show her, plus I wanted to look at her solid colored fabric.

I had no intention of shopping other than looking at the solid fabric.  But a girl I know was working there...someone I had not seen in ages and ages...and she asked me if I knew the sale table was on sale for 50% off the lowest price.  Well, thank-you very much, Mary, I did not know that.  How kind of you to give me an excuse to go look.  The above is the yardage I got...$4 per yard.

And the photo above and the one below are the fat quarters...I think they were $1 each...

This is one of the few times in life when I have gotten a good deal on something.  But for those of us with any age on us and that have ever sewn and bought fabric in our younger years, who would have thought we would come to the day when $4/yard for cotton fabric was a good deal?  I for sure wouldn't have. 
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I am slowly piecing a back for my small crumb quilt.  Instead of using little small pieces, I am using chunks...at least for the center of it.  Would like to have some bigger wider pieces for the rest of it, but am going to have to look and see what I can come up with.
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It is so hot and humid here today.  Roger mowed the yard and was soaked before he even came close to being done.  I  did house things--vacuuming, mopping, and a couple loads of laundry.  And soon as he was done, I hung laundry out...

And when he had his shower and got cooled down a little, he cut up tomatoes and I buttered Italian bread and sprinkled with garlic salt, and fried it till it was toasty...and that was our lunch.  I have been dreaming about that all winter long.  Something I have been craving since our tomatoes ended last summer. 

Now that I have some time, I think I will go play with my fabric for a while....

Ruffles...

Just can't resist posting these ruffled daylilies...

I know I have got to stop posting these...

but just had to do just one more.

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For some reason these ruffles, especially the last daylily above reminds me of the full, frilly slips little girls used to wear under their little dresses.

That led to me remembering girls in our high school had to wear dresses....we could not wear pants till our senior year in high school.  I can't imagine that happening at any school today.  Things have changed so much.   Our school cafeteria served lunch, it was either take it or bring your own.  There were no choices to be made...I think only regular milk was served...no choice of what to drink.  It was either milk or water.

I remember getting cornbread every now and then that had the sugar in it.  I wouldn't eat it, but one of my friends thought it was like getting an extra piece of cake and always enjoyed it. 

I don't remember many of the foods we had...probably my favorite was their pizza.  And my favorite dessert was the no bake chocolate cookies.  And I still love them today, though I seldom make them.  Not even sure I have made them since the girls moved out.  One of these days Lorelei and I will make some...

Her mom makes them now...in fact her mom has made them for almost as long as I can remember.  She had a friend that lived over on the next street...almost any time they spent much time together, they ended up cooking...and a lot of times they made the no bake cookies.  Sometimes they had to go between their homes to get all the ingredients...

And speaking of cookies, I think I need one more snack before I go to bed....